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A dose of reality? Requiring employees to be vaccinated

A dose of reality? Requiring employees to be vaccinated

The following Employment news provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on A dose of reality? Requiring employees to be vaccinated

BEIS ‘Working safely during coronavirus’: 31 July updates after pausing of shielding regime

BEIS ‘Working safely during coronavirus’: 31 July updates after pausing of shielding regime

The following Employment news provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on BEIS ‘Working safely during coronavirus’: 31 July updates after pausing of shielding regime

BEIS ‘Working safely during coronavirus’: updates to nine guides made on 26 November

BEIS ‘Working safely during coronavirus’: updates to nine guides made on 26 November

The following Corporate Crime news provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on BEIS ‘Working safely during coronavirus’: updates to nine guides made on 26 November

BEIS ‘Working safely during coronavirus’: updates to 13 guides made on 9 and 10 September

BEIS ‘Working safely during coronavirus’: updates to 13 guides made on 9 and 10 September

The following Corporate Crime news provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on BEIS ‘Working safely during coronavirus’: updates to 13 guides made on 9 and 10 September

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What is diversity and inclusion (D&I)—law firms

What is diversity and inclusion (D&I)—law firms

This Practice Note provides a high-level introduction to diversity and inclusion (D&I) and key reasons why it is important to law firms. Specific...

Repudiation

Repudiation

This Practice Note concerns repudiation and sets out what a repudiatory breach of contract means. It explains how a repudiatory breach goes to the...

Contract variation

Contract variation

This Practice Note summarises the law, guidance and practice relating to the variation of contracts and deeds. It explains how a contract or deed can...

Equitable remedies in contractual disputes

Equitable remedies in contractual disputes

While the primary remedy for contractual breach is that of damages (see Practice Note: Contractual damages—general principles and related content),...

Practice notes

Termination and expiry of contracts

This Practice Note provides an overview of contract expiry and of the different causes of termination and ways to discharge a contract, including...
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9th Nov
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Precedents

Draft outline script for disciplinary hearing (misconduct)

1Introductions of those present if necessary. Confirm who is taking notes and that copies of the meeting notes will be made available to the...
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9th Nov
Practice notes

Introduction to retained EU law

This Practice Note provides an introduction to retained EU law, which is an entirely new legal concept introduced to UK domestic law in preparation...
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9th Nov
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Precedents

Letter—long-term sickness absence (6): to employee confirming dismissal on notice (following final written warning)

[To be typed on headed notepaper of employer][Date]Dear [insert name of employee],Re: [insert name of employer] (the Company)Following our most recent...
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9th Nov
Precedents

Letter of variation

[ON HEADED NOTEPAPER OF PARTY A][Insert address of Party B][[Insert address of Guarantor]][Insert date]Dear [name of Party B][ and [name of...
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9th Nov
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Practice notes

Formulating a learning and development—L&D—policy

This Practice Note provides information on formulating a learning and development (L&D) policy. It reviews key issues to consider including:•what is...
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Produced in partnership with Beth Pipe FCIPD of OnLive Learning 12th Jan
Precedents

Letter—employer acknowledgement of notification of maternity leave

Date: [insert date]Dear [insert name of employee]Congratulations and thank you for telling me about your pregnancy and the date that your baby is due....
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9th Nov
Precedents

The employment contract—sample pensions clauses

The following pension clauses set out the pensions information to be included in an employment contract, depending on the type of...
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Produced in partnership with Wyn Derbyshire of gunnercooke LLP 12th Jan

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Practice notes

How to read and understand the financial accounts of a law firm

This Practice Note provides information about how to read and understand the financial accounts of a law firm.Why are financial accounts important?Law...
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Produced in partnership with Robert Mowbray of Taylor Mowbray LLP 15th Jan
Practice notes

Benchmarking—what are normal measures of financial performance in a law firm?

This Practice Note provides information about different ways of measuring financial performance in a law firm. It also provides guidance on how to...
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Produced in partnership with Robert Mowbray of Taylor Mowbray LLP 8th Jan
Precedents

Raw data capture sheet for financial calculations—blank

DataSource of dataFigure£Current assetsBalance sheet[insert figure]Current liabilities...
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7th Dec
Precedents

Fee income monitoring

Monthly fee income generated in [insert year]...
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7th Dec
Precedents

Analysing fee income, fee—earning capacity and fees per fee earner—blank

There is little point in collecting data on a firm's financial performance if that data is not used to improve its performance. A firm’s fee income,...
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7th Dec
Precedents

Benchmarking financial performance

Please click for an Excel version of this schedule.

Please note that th

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7th Dec
Precedents

Cash and profitability ratio calculations—blank

Date of calculations: [insert date of calculations]Current ratioFormulaCalculationResultResult from previous month/year% movementCurrent assets ÷...
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7th Dec
Precedents

Key steps to assess the financial performance of your firm—flowchart

This flowchart illustrates the three key steps to be taken to assess the financial performance of your firm.Click here to view or print a PDF version...
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7th Dec
Precedents

Cash and profitability ratio calculations—worked example

Cash and profitability ratio calculations—Current ratioFormulaCalculationResultResult from previous month/year% movementCurrent assets ÷ Current...
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7th Dec
Precedents

Raw data capture sheet for financial calculations—worked example

Raw data capture sheet for financial calculationsDataSource of dataFigure£Current assetsBalance sheet764,000...
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7th Dec
Precedents

Analysing fee income, fee—earning capacity and fees per fee earner—worked example

There is little point in collecting data on a firm's financial performance if that data is not used to improve its performance. A firm’s fee income,...
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7th Dec
Precedents

Variable calculations

Raw data requiredDataFigureTotal number of full-time fee earnersTotal number of part-time fee earnersTotal number of days per week worked by...
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7th Dec

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Written basis of plea and Newton hearings

When defendants are guilty, they have a choice to plead guilty or to put the prosecution to proof. When they plead guilty they may benefit from a reduction in their sentence as a result, see Practice Note: Credit for guilty plea. However, the Sentencing Council's overarching guidelines on reduction

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Transferred malice

The principle of transferred maliceIf a person has a malicious intent towards X and, in carrying out that intent, injures Y, he is guilty of an offence. So, if D shoots at A with intent to kill him but kills B by mistake it is murder; the mistake as to the identity of the victim is irrelevant as D

LEXISNEXIS

The pari passu principle and collection remedies for the office-holder—the position under the Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016

The primary function of office-holders in personal and corporate insolvency is to collect in the assets belonging to a company or individual and to distribute these to the company's or individual's creditors. Office-holders have various duties and powers in order to ensure that they do this. For

LEXISNEXIS

Joint, several, and joint and several liability

ContractWhere a contract is made by two or more parties it may contain a promise or obligation made by two or more of those parties. Any such promise may be:•joint•several, or•joint and severalWhether an undertaking is joint, several, or joint and several in contract is a question of construction